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City’s first 2013 baby born
two hours after midnight
It’s a girl! Parents erally,” said Arne. “Then to
surprised by arrival, Sobeys to walk around, and
then we came straight here.”
assumed New Year’s The pair arrived at the
baby would be born hospital around 10 p.m., and
learned at 12:45 a.m. that
days sooner
since the baby was turned
sideways a C-section would
have to be performed.
HEATHER Just over an hour later,
MCINTYRE Saiya entered the world at
[email protected] 7 lbs, 7 oz, measuring 20
inches in length.
Arne Kang and wife Sangeet She is the second child for
Kaur Kang planned to ring in the Kangs, as two-year-old
2013 playing board games at Nishaan is now a big brother.
a friend’s house. “It’s the million-dollar
Instead, their New Year family now,” said Sangeet.
became happy at 2 a.m. Jan. In Punjabi, Saiya trans-
1 when daughter Saiya was lates to shadow, “someone
born at the Grey Nuns Com- that’s with you all the time,
munity Hospital, entering something that’s with you all
the world as Edmonton’s the time,” said Arne. “That’s
first baby of the year. why we chose the name.”
“We thought she would
be a Christmas baby,” said Next up
Sangeet, who said she wasn’t
expecting to have a New
Year’s baby, despite being (cid:580)(cid:3) The next 2013 babies
due Jan. 2. “We were ready to were at 4:11 a.m. at the
go out with our friends and Royal Alexandra Hos-
then we came to the hospital pital, and then at 6:38
instead.” a.m. at the Misericordia
In fact the Kangs, both Community Hospital.
32, were ready to leave their
Riverbend home at about (cid:580)(cid:3) According to Covenant
6 p.m. for New Year’s Eve Health, the Grey Nuns
celebrations when it became Community Hospital
apparent their daughter was delivers the most babies
on her way. annually in the Edmon-
“So we went to BPs for ton zone.
wings — for hot wings, lit-
A festive feed Fireworks
spark tragedy
Bissell Centre’s annual meal
fills more than 1,200 of
Edmonton’s homeless and At least 61 dead in Ivory
low-income citizens PAGE 2 Coast after stampede PAGE 4 Proud mom Sangeet Kaur Kang holds Edmonton’s New Year’s baby, Saiya, on Tuesday afternoon just 12 hours after she was born. HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO
02 NEWS metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Northern Alberta New year, new rules
Writing RCMP say Alberta Trans- Jan. 1. The bylaw is only
portation says one of the in effect, though, if the
Falling concrete Edmonton rings
Edmonton’s lanes is expected to be open temperature is above 0
halts traffi c Tuesday night, while three in 2013 with degrees C.
winter. Police in northern Alberta obfr itdhgee fhoauvre l abneeesn o rveeorp tehnee d. anti-idling bylaw tionA,f tceitry m couuchn cdile lpibasesread-
believe a hit-and-run semi Police say they got a call the bylaw last May in a
Anthology
was responsible for damag- about significant damage Idling outside schools and vote of 7-4.
ing an overpass on Highway to the bridge Monday night health facilities in Edmon- Elementary schools will
submissions 63. just before 9 p.m. ton got pricey, effective be first, but as many as
They say the damage to They also got reports of Tuesday. 319 schools and 18 health
pile up the Hospital Street over- concrete chunks falling onto A bylaw prohibiting facilities could want signs
S pass in Fort McMurray has the highway lanes. vehicles from idling in erected. Tickets, while a
compromised its structural RCMP say they believe front of or around the last resort, will only be
integrity and both lanes a tractor trailer hauling an buildings for more than handed out once the signs
Edmonton writer Jason Lee underneath the overpass oversized load hit the bridge five minutes per half an are put up. The fine for
Norman set out this past have been closed. and fled. THE CANADIAN PRESS hour came into effect idling is $250. METRO
W October hoping to collect 40
pieces of words, stories and
artwork about and inspired by A festive feast for
Edmonton’s winter.
As of Dec. 31, 2012 — his
deadline — he had more than
200.
“I got over 220 submis-
E sions, and then some of those city’s less fortunate
have multiple pieces attached
to them,” Norman said on
New Year’s Day, noting the
final tally may be closer to
N 300.
Known as The 40 Below
Project, Norman’s idea is to Bissell Centre. Annual By the numbers
self-publish an anthology in New Year’s meal inspires
both eBook and paperback
form in November 2013. low-income citizens, as (cid:580)(cid:3) About 800 people volun-
His task now is to whittle well as the volunteers teer at Bissell Centre each
down and edit the submis- year in food services, drop-
sions, which touch on the serving up the food in and special event areas.
holiday season, current winter
days and even past freezing (cid:580)(cid:3) The New Year’s meal uses
seasons — such as a month- LUCY some 50 volunteers —
long cold snap in 1969. HAINES people like Saroj Saher,
Norman said the best he’s For Metro who has been volunteer
read so far describe winter More than 1,200 homeless dessert co-ordinator for 18
scenes that make him feel and and low-income inner-city years.
see the Edmonton River Valley residents welcomed the
or a specific park. new year with a hot turkey (cid:580)(cid:3) While businesses donate
“I really think there will meal Tuesday, thanks to big- the 65 turkeys, 35 hams
be something for everybody,” hearted staff and volunteers and countless desserts, the
said Norman, who calls the at the Bissell Centre. family-run Palace Banquet
book a love letter to the city. “Some people live in and Conference Facility
has been cooking the
“And I think they’ll be able rooming houses, but have
meal for several years.
to not only see their city in a no kitchen, so they couldn’t
different way, they’ll be able make a big meal like this,”
to see winter in Edmonton a said Kristen Clark, marketing
different way. and communications man- he said.
“There’s some really cool ager of the Bissell Centre, Roger Sarna, owner of
things that a lot of (other) pointing to the holiday meal The Palace, has recruited his
people don’t get to have in the service agency has been wife and children — some
their lives or in their cities.” providing for over 20 years. 11 family members in all —
HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO “It helps start the new year to serve the meal as a way to
off right.” give back to the community.
John, 45, who is homeless, “Our kids have everything.
Flurry of entries
220 said it’s much more than the God is good to us. It’s import-
delicious food that he ap- ant to see how life can be,”
preciates. “It’s the welcome said Sarna. “And to see those
— the handshake and happy with very little give each
new year greeting at the door other blessings on the first Volunteers from the Bissell Centre and The Palace serve up a full festive
Edmonton writer Jason Lee Norman got when I came in. It’s that day of the year — what more meal with all the trimmings — to more than 1,200 of Edmonton’s inner-city
more than 220 submissions. thought that counts for me,” can you ask?” community. LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Age test to decide if suspected
Oregon crash
Police ID one slain
in B.C.-bound bus
rapist can face murder charge
Investigators in Oregon are
trying to piece together
the final moments before
a Vancouver-bound tour
bus carrying 48 people
India. Prosecutors seek Too often ignored careened down a steep
death penalty for five hillside, ejecting some pas-
sengers and killing nine.
other suspects held in Activists hope the assault Police said Monday
rape and murder case will shatter taboos and they weren’t sure how fast
make authorities take such the bus was travelling on
cases more seriously. a partly icy highway in a
rural mountain pass east of
A bone test is being con- (cid:580)(cid:3) Police often refuse to Pendleton, Ore.
ducted to confirm the age of hear complaints and Oregon State Police
a young suspect in custody even accuse victims of identified one of the vic-
in the fatal assault and gang inviting unwanted male tims as a 57-year-old Wash-
rape of a woman on a bus in attention. ington man. Authorities
India’s capital, while pros- said Dale William Osborn
ecutors will seek the death (cid:580)(cid:3) Families also dissuade was killed in Sunday’s crash
penalty for five other men victims from coming and his wife Sue Osborn
arrested with him, police forward in the belief remained hospitalized.
said Tuesday. that it will ruin their A list of injured released
The six will be formally reputations. by police named seven
charged Thursday on accusa- Canadian residents, includ-
tions that they kidnapped, ing the driver, identified
gang-raped and murdered Another officer said a as 54-year-old Haeng Kyu
the 23-year-old woman in bone test is being conducted Hwang of Vancouver.
New Delhi on Dec. 16, a to determine if one suspect Police said they were
police spokesman said. Out- is indeed a juvenile. If the working with the Korean
raged Indians have been test determines he is 18 Consulate to identify other
demanding the death pen- years or older he will be victims.
alty for the six men, hold- treated as an adult, said the The crash occurred near
ing demonstrations almost officer, who spoke on condi- a spot called Deadman
every day. Murder is punish- tion of anonymity. Pass, at the top of a steep,
able by death; rape, by life Many officials cancelled 11-kilometre descent from
imprisonment. But those their New Year’s cele- the Blue Mountains.
below 18 years of age cannot brations on Monday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
be prosecuted for murder. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The death of a student has set off debate about what India must do to prevent more pain. DAR YASIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Stampede after fireworks
Recovery. Clinton still in
hospital with blood clot
kills 61 on New Year’s Eve
Secretary of State Hillary Clin-
ton continues to recover in
a New York hospital where Tragedy. Most of those and turned this city into a
she’s being treated for a blood killed in Ivory Coast city battle zone.
clot in her head. With 2013 showing greater
Her doctors say blood thin- were children and teens promise, people were in the
ners are being used to dissolve mood to celebrate on New
the clot and they are confident Year’s Eve. Families brought
she will make a full recovery. A crowd stampeded after children and they watched
Clinton didn’t suffer a stroke leaving a New Year’s Eve fire- the rockets burst in the
or neurological damage from works show early Tuesday nighttime sky. But only an
the clot that formed after she in Ivory Coast’s main city, hour into the new year, as
suffered a concussion during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton killing 61 people — many of the crowds poured onto the
a fainting spell at her home in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS them children and teenagers Boulevard de la Republic after
early December, doctors said — and injuring more than the show, something caused a
in a statement Monday. in the vein in the space be- 200, rescue workers said. stampede, said Col. Issa Sako
Clinton, 65, was admit- tween the brain and the skull Thousands had gathered at of the fire department rescue
ted to New York-Presbyterian behind the right ear. She will the Felix Houphouet Boigny team. How so many deaths oc-
Hospital on Sunday when the be released once the medica- Stadium in Abidjan’s Plateau curred on the broad boulevard
clot turned up on a follow- tion dose for the blood thin- district to see the fireworks. and how the tragedy started is
up exam on the concussion, ners has been established, the It was only the second New likely to be the subject of an
Clinton spokesman Phillipe doctors said. Year’s Eve fireworks display investigation.
Reines said. The clot is located THE ASSOCIATED PRESS since peace returned to this Many of the younger ones
West African nation after a in the crowd went down, An Ivory Coast soldier stands next to the belongings of people involved in a
New York City Melting bank notes bloody upheaval over presi- trampled underfoot. Most of deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. At least 61 people were killed
dential elections put the na- those killed were between 8 following a New Year’s Eve fireworks display. EMANUEL EKRA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
tion on the brink of civil war and 15 years old.
Woman dies after Disclosure a threat
“The flood of people leav- sobbing in the back of an coloured braids in her hair
falling onto tracks to security: BoC ing the stadium became a ambulance; another was bent lay under a blanket with one
Missing children stampede which led to the over on the side of the street, hand bandaged. The death toll
New York City police say a Disclosing details of deaths of more than 60 and apparently in pain; and an- could rise, officials said.
“I have just seen all the
young woman stumbling discussions about tales of injured more than 200,” Sako other, barely conscious and The government organ-
around on a subway plat- melting banknotes could bodies, but I cannot find told Ivory Coast state TV. wearing only a bra on her up- ized the fireworks to celebrate
form not far from Times endanger national security my son ... I don’t know Desperate parents went to per body, was hoisted by res- Ivory Coast’s peace, after sev-
Square fell onto the tracks or international relations, the city morgue, the hospital cuers. There were also scenes eral months of political vio-
what to do.”
and was killed by a train. says Canada’s central bank. and the stadium to try to find of small children being treat- lence in early 2011 following
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS Mamadou Sanogo, who was searching for missing children. ed in a hospital. One boy grim- disputed elections.
his nine-year-old son, Sayed, at the morgue State TV showed a woman aced in pain and a girl with THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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metronews.ca VOICES 07
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
YOLO, SO IT’S
Moscow on the Mediterranean
TIME TO RETIRE
THESE CLICHÉS
JUST How many times over the past
SAYIN’ year have you heard the term
Paul Sullivan “double down”?
metronews.ca/voices/ If you answered, “Too many,”
just-saying you probably feel much the same
way about other misused and
abused words and phrases of 2012, including, but not restricted
to: Fiscal cliff, trending, passion, spoiler alert, bucket list, super-
food and the now unavoidable YOLO (you only live once).
These and others turned up on this year’s Lake Superior State
University’s 2013 List of Banned Words. When you’re only a
minor seat of higher learning in the snowbelt — and not Harvard
— you need to come up with a shtick to get noticed.
Back in 1975, some PR genius
at LSSU came up with the idea of
An aptitude for platitudes an annual list of words that need
to be banned. Every year, the
It’s like you belong to
university publishes a selection
a club, and the only of words and phrases compiled
requirement for from the submissions of grumpy
wordsmiths across North Amer-
membership is that
ica, and every year, the news
you have to use the services cover it as if it’s actually
trendy word before news. Of course, “wordsmith”
made the list one year, but, like
your mother texts it
most of the other words on the
to her BFF. list, people just keep on using
them … until they don’t.
The list is more important
now than ever as the alarming proliferation of bloggers who feed
off other bloggers has led to the near-complete eradication of ori- ODED BALILTY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ginal thought, as everyone doubles down on the trending slang.
It’s like you belong to a club, and the only requirement for Distinct society Growing influence Kosher clash Old country and new
membership is that you have to use the trendy word before your 3rd
mother texts it to her BFF (previously banned abbreviation for
From Russia with Russian power
best friend forever). If you continue to use it after that, you earn
the scorn of the haters, but I’m sure everyone else thinks you’re love of culture on the rise
terribly trending.
Israel has the world’s third-largest
The problem with “trending,” according to its nominators, is The children of immi- By virtue of their sheer
Russian-speaking community outside
that it’s not up to the task: Trending which way? Up? Down? Out? grants from the former of the former Soviet Union, after numbers in a country
The problem with the fiscal cliff is obvious. Talk about a lazy Soviet Union attend a the U.S. and Germany. Today, of eight million people,
reference to the worst financial crisis of the century to date. But ballet class in Lod, central Russian-speaking émigrés and their the Russian population
instead of working hard to understand it, all of us lemmings pre- Israel. The Soviet state children occupy virtually every corner has transformed Israel.
fer to roll it up and package it in a neat phrase that we can take crumbled 20 years ago, of Israeli society, from academia ODED BALILTY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In parts of the country,
with us as we go over it. and in the aftermath, and technology to the military and it’s hard to find a single
“Double down” is particularly odious. It allows you to pretend more than one million of politics. Every fourth employee in An employee of the Mizra Hebrew sign in a sea of
you’re a real riverboat gambler, comfortable with high-risk black- its citizens took advan- Israel’s flourishing high-tech industry pork-processing plant Cyrillic. Shopkeepers
jack strategies, when you don’t know jack about doubling down tage of Jewish roots to is a Russian-speaking immigrant, as poses with a pig’s head in a address customers in Rus-
or hitting me up or whatever. emigrate to Israel. Some is every other engineer. The world’s refrigerated warehouse in sian and stores are amply
One of my faves this year is “passion,” as in “That’s my pas- prominent ballet dancers second-ranked chess master, Belarus- Kibbutz Mizra, northern Is- stocked with red caviar
sion,” justifying some inane or inherently dangerous practice were among them, form- born Boris Gelfand, lives in Israel, and rael. The Russian immigrant and vodka. Russian pop
about one-quarter of Israel’s Olympic
you’re currently enthusiastic about. “Passion” goes well with ing ballet schools and con- community has increased beats thump at bars, and
coaches grew up in the former Soviet
“fruit” and “Easter,” but otherwise should be avoided as overkill. tinuing a dance culture demand for pork in the in some homes, people are
Union.
Just because YOLO doesn’t mean you should give in to your highly regarded in their country, a non-kosher food as likely to be hunched
passion for clichés. mother country. rarely eaten by Israeli Jews. over a chessboard as they
Just sayin’. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS are a computer keyboard.
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DVD review
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Looper
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Director. Rian Johnson
Stars. Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
Emily Blunt
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Looper is a real head flip
of a time trip, definitely
not your usual ray gun
C routine, which is why it Horror icon Leatherface returns to hunt unsuspecting teenagers in the latest installment of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, Texas Chainsaw 3D. H ANDOUT
was chosen as the gala
opener for this year’s Carving out a killer
TIFF. Skillfully bend-
ing genres since he first
S smashed with Brick in
2005, Rian Johnson puts
that film’s star, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, into an
franchise — in 3D
identity crisis sci-fi thriller
set in the Kansas of 2044.
JGL plays Joe, a “looper”
(hit man) working for
innovative mobsters from
the year 2074, who use
a time machine to send
their victims back three Horror. The Texas aginatively titled Texas Chain- Gunnar Hansen, who played chainsaws in the hardware sec-
decades for untraceable saw 3D. Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw tion of a crowded Montgomery
bullets and burning. Fast Chainsaw Massacre’s In November 1957, police Massacre, says Hooper and co- Ward’s department store.
cash is just a shot away Leatherface has been raided the home of Plainfield, writer Kim Henkel based the “The idea popped,” he re-
for ice-cool Joe and his Wis., farmer Ed Gein, uncov- character of the hooded chain- membered. “I said, ‘Ooh, I
terrifying audiences
blunderbuss -- until a new ering gruesome evidence that saw killer on Gein. know how I could get out of
crime kingpin decides to for more than 30 years would lead to charges of mur- “When they set out to write this place fast — if I just start
“close the loop” and the der and body snatching. this movie,” he said, “they de- one of these things up and
mirror threatens. Bruce After two trials, he spent cided to have a family of killers make that sound.’”
Willis and Emily Blunt co- the rest of his life in a mental who had some of the character- That nerve jangling noise—
star in this future shocker Two far-flung events inspired facility, but his story would go istics of Gein: the skin masks, the revving of a chainsaw—has
that is smarter than most, director Tobe Hooper to write on to inspire three characters– the furniture made from bones, been the soundtrack of terror
at least until the novelty The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Norman Bates from Psycho, the possibility of cannibalism.” ever since. The original is an
wears thin. Extras include the down-and-dirty 1974 in- Buffalo Bill from The Silence of Hooper adds the story was atmospheric gem, a white-
deleted scenes, die film that spawned sequels, the Lambs and one other that also partially inspired by “the knuckle movie that made
PETER HOWELL prequels and this weekend’s would serve as the basis for six massacres and atrocities in the Leatherface the first icon of
splashy 3D remake — the im- films. Vietnam War” and a display of modern horror.
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